The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.

Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., to offenses stemming from his operation of the Kelihos botnet, which he used to ...

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...

A Chinese national was charged Wednesday with leading the “world’s largest botnet,” responsible for “billions” in cybercrime, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The DOJ said YunHe ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with other agencies, has disrupted a botnet that consisted of more than 200,000 consumer devices worldwide. Dubbed “Flax Typhoon,” the botnet ...

Sheldon Whitehouse's amendment to tackle botnets in the Senate cyber bill failed. How much good might the legislation have done? Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-R.I.) CISA amendment to tackle botnets ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

The Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched a new massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in December 2025, peaking at ...

FBI, Facebook join forces to fight "Butterfly Botnet" cyber attack. Dec. 12, 2012— -- The FBI says a "Butterfly Botnet" cyber attack targeted 11 million computer users around the world and was ...

A computer hacker responsible for creating armies of computers to launch Internet-based attacks and selling those “botnets” to spammers and others pleaded guilty yesterday to federal criminal charges ...